“Muslims are feeling threatened…” Jan Suraaj Party Founder Prashant Kishor on Waqf Amendment Bill

Apr 02, 2025

Patna (Bihar) April 02 (ANI): On Waqf Amendment Bill, Jan Suraaj party Founder Prashant Kishor said, "It is unfortunate. I don't see this as against Muslims or against Hindus...If you deviate from the commitments and assurances that our founding fathers gave to different sections of this country after independence, then it becomes the responsibility of the people of this generation to be truthful to those commitments. If you are making any changes to them that impact any section, then those sections should be taken into confidence before making such laws. A large section of Muslims is feeling threatened by the Waqf Bill. I feel that the Government is forming this law in haste for the politics of polarisation...The government doesn't have a majority in Lok Sabha. They are able to bring this law because people like Nitish Kumar are supporting the Government; if leaders like Nitish Kumar do not vote in support of this Bill in Lok Sabha, then the Government can never make this a law. BJP doesn't consider Muslims their vote bank...but people like Nitish Kumar who tell Muslims every day that they are the well-wishers of the community, should definitely think that aren't they showing their hypocrisy by voting in support of this Bill even when they speak of Gandhi, Lohia and JP? When this era is written in history, the blame for this law will be more on leaders like Nitish Kumar than the BJP."